Teacher Gifts

As I mentioned in the previous post, the dt at Punky Sprouts got to work with Pink Paislee this month.  I received the Indigo Bleu and Prairie Hill lines.  I am saving the Prairie Hill line for a mini album in June.  With the end of the year coming up I knew I needed some gifts and this Indigo Bleu line was the perfect combination!  I wasn't sure what I wanted to make so I went to my stash of alterable stuff (Yes, I have a stash!) and found some big clothespins and some regular clothespins.  I had given the preschool teachers the large clothespins 4 years ago when my son was in preschool so I decided to make them some clothespin magnets and make the large one for his 2nd grade teacher along with some matching magnets.

For the large clothespin I mod podged the papers on and then tied a Denim Lil' Stem around it to give it some texture.  I also mod podged over the top to keep it from peeling.

The little clothespins have the paper mod podged on and then I embellished just a few with the Indigo Bleu die cuts and some Lil' Twiney.

For the cards I decided to keep it simple with the same design for all 3 teachers.  To make them just a little different, I made 3 different flowers using a Denim Stem, small Parchment Blossoms and medium Parchment Blossoms.  

Hope you are inspired to make something for someone in your life today! :)

Punky Sprouts Products: Lil' DenimTwiney, Lil' Denim Stem, Small Parchment Blossom, Medium Parchment Blossom
Pink Paislee Products: Indigo Bleu: patterned paper, die cuts, alpha stickers
Other Products, large clothespin, clothespins, Mod Podge

Thanks A Latte!

Not sure why I have decided that all Teacher Appreciation gifts should be "punny" but it seems I have! :)  Here is what we made the teachers for yesterday.  I totally took the easy way out and printed it from here!  I knew this is what I wanted to do and was going to make a card but when I saw this one, I thought it was perfect!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Last year I had a blast with our Teacher Appreciation gifts. (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5)  I haven't done the gifts from us yet but this year at Isaac's school, I have been leading the 5th grade leadership class.  I have about 15 fifth graders that I meet with for 20 minutes every other week.  For teacher appreciation week, I thought it would be fun if the leadership class had a little something for every teacher, every day.  Keep in mind that we therefore had 20 minutes for 1 kids to make 100 little gifts! :)  Luckily, they are great kids and we were able to finish all of these!  I made it so that they just had to do a bit of work on each one.  Here's what we did:

Day 1: I have a couple girls who like to do their "creative" writing so they wrote berry on these.

 Day 2: I thought these would be challenging to make but the 3 girls working on them, whipped through them!  I used the instructions from here.  There are little fortunes inside that say "We are fortunate to have you at West!"

 

Day 3: This one was for all the artists...they all did different borders.

Day 4: I cut the slits on the printed circles ahead of time and then they used one of my big punches and then slid it on the pencil.  This was the last one I decided to do and I think it turned out to be my favorite.

Day 5: The flowers were cut out on my Cricut which made this easier to prepare!  The kids wrote "Thanks for helping us bloom" on the flowers.

Teacher Appreciation Week...Day 5

A little later than I have been with this post but here is Day 5's treat!  Filled with all the makings of some good old fashioned S'mores!

Here's the rest, in case you missed them!
Day 1: You're "Tea"riffic!
Day 2: You're Out of this World!
Day 3: You're O"fish"ally a Super Teacher!
Day 4: Thanks for Making Me a Smartie!

Teacher Appreciation Week...Day 4

Isaac insisted on being in the picture this time!  Not sure what this smile/laugh/facial expression is that he's got going on but I think he's cute anyway! :)

Teacher Appreciation Week...Day 3

Here's our Wednesday treat for his teachers!  (those are gummy fish!)  And he even talked me into using my Sassafras feltie fish!

Teacher Appreciation Week...Day 2

We're having fun with this, this year!  Isaac loves doing it all himself!  And I think he especially loves that he gets to use my scrapbooking paper and supplies!  We taped the rockets on the back of the candy bars.  (he has 2 teachers.)

Teacher Appreciation Week...Day 1

I don't know how this sneaks up on me every year but it does! I needed a quick and easy token to send tomorrow. Found this list of ideas. We went with "You're Tea-rrific" I let Isaac (Kindergarten) do all of it himself. In fact, I had a tag out for him to make and it was his idea to spell it out with the tea!

I'll show you what we make each day this week! But even if you don't have the time, don't forget to thank a teacher!